Grant for Four—and Wider Condition
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A MANCHESTER haulage concern was granted four additional artics and an amalgamation of three A licences for 44 other vehicles, as part of a 50-vehicle A licence application last week.
Six artics to be acquired (of which four were granted) were included in the application by W. NuttalI and Sons, of Clifton, which was heard by the North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. G. K. _Newman. Forty-four of the vehicles were being operated on three distinct A licences, with varying conditions, and the grant allowed these–to he transferred to the same licence. This meant 36 vehicles being transferred to a wider normal user than that on which they had been operating. Three vehicles at present operating on a short-term B for the major customers, Electric Power Storage Ltd., were to he surrendered.
The objectors, British Road Services and British Railways, made no issue of the destinetions applied for, which ranged from Lancashire to London, Wales, the Midlands, Tyneside and Glasgow; their objection was to the amalgamation of licences and the additional vehicles. The normal user included batteries and accumulators, detergents, machinery, building materials, foodstuffs, plastics, chemicals, paper, and "export commodities".
Mr. T. H. Dorman, traffic manager W. Nuttall and •Sons, said the prime advantage of the amalgamation of the licences would be a saving in administration. He added that his company had introduced nightly. trunk services from Manchester to Glasgow and Gloucester in the past year. In 1964 they handled approximately £6,000 worth of work for BRS, more than"60 per cent of which was outward traffic from Manchester. " It is virtually impossible to get outside contractors at the moment; everybody is ringing everybody else to get help where and when they can ", he said.
In answer to Mr. J. Coffey, for BRS, Mr. Dorman agreed he regarded it as disappointing his customers if he could not give them better than a 24-hour ser vice. At 9 a.m. he had, at most. 10 vehicles waiting for work; by 10 a.m. they were fully booked.
Three customer witnesses gave evidence and three letters of support were handed in.
Giving his decision, Mr. Newman said the objectors had produced no evidence to show they could do the work; he could not see that there would be a surplus of requirements in unifying the licence.